listen if you don’t understand how imagining something happening to a fictional character is different from imagining it happening to a real human being, I don’t know how to have a fucking conversation with you
it’s actually not different at all because your brain doesn’t know the difference between a real interaction and a made-up interaction! things that you imagine happening to you in-depth affect you just as much as it would if it actually happened
I genuinely cannot tell if you’re sincere and that worries me
I can’t think of anything more insulting than telling trauma survivors that the impact to their brain would have been exactly the same if they’d read a story about what happened instead of living through it
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